The issue of U.S. forces on the Golan Heights involves large stakes for the United States.
Syria has insisted Annapolis address its demands for the return of the Israeli-held Golan Heights.
Syria must also forswear tampering with the water that flows into Israel through the Golan Heights.
Israel captured Ghajar, along with the Golan Heights, from Syria in the 1967 Six Day war.
Syria never populated the Golan in the past, except with troops and Druze militia.
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What benefits do Syria and Israel expect to derive from a U.S. presence on the Golan?
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It was willing to give up the critical Golan Heights, asking little in return.
Yehudit and Yisrael Golan, both in their mid-20s, have come here with their two young children.
Ms. GOLAN: Until there will be an agreement about where we are going to live.
Finally, Syria has also decided to remove military checkpoints on the road to the Golan Heights.
Since then, the Druze in Golan have been cut off from the Druze in Syria.
Mr Golan had to bring in lorry loads of maize to keep the rest alive.
The weather and disease are worries for Mr Golan, but the biggest problem is people.
And this, he hinted, was available only as part of a comprehensive accord covering the Golan.
Syria insists on a return of the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in 1967.
Israel captured the Golan, a strategic plateau, from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war.
Most Israelis are loth to part with the Golan escarpment that towers over north-eastern Israel.
Large numbers of Israelis, opposed to withdrawal from the Golan Heights , demonstrated in Tel Aviv.
What would United States negotiators demand if the Golan Heights were an American asset?
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And they oppose transferring Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and the Golan Heights to Arab control.
But in recent months it has retaliated following Syrian firing into Israeli-controlled areas in the Golan Heights.
Israel has not announced the extent to which it is willing to withdraw from the Golan Heights.
The analogy between U.S. peacekeepers on the Golan and those already in the Sinai cannot withstand analysis.
Thus, the United States would need to commit at least one division to a Golan deterrence mission.
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Ms. YEHUDIT GOLAN (Neve Dekalim): We didn't believe that it will happen, so we set with breakfast.
But Mr Golan pressed on, buying estates in Tanzania, Malawi and Zimbabwe, and refurbishing and expanding them.
Saguy has served as the chief champion of a Golan Heights surrender for more than a decade.
Lieutenant Colonel Golan Kohestani(ph) has been a soldier for 18 years, spending most of that time at war.
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Israel annexed the Golan Heights in 1981 and peace talks with Syria over the territory have repeatedly failed.
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